Tornado Alley (PROG)

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YES! .. very informative all the way .. the death squads ..

"In Alawite areas, they have been accused of detaining Syrians with Sunni names at checkpoints and doing away with them."

.. how tragic! .. to be hit just because of your religion, deep-rooted traditional hatreds are a curse upon any spirit .. and this ..

"The Baath Party was founded in the 1940s by two Christian intellectuals who advocated a secular Arab nationalism. In some ways, the “Resurrection,” or Baath, party was to resemble the Communist Party, but instead of championing the working class and being universal it would uplift ethnic Arabs and unite them to throw off the vestiges of Western, colonial domination. This attempt to subvert socialism with an appeal to essentially racist themes made the Baath an odd hybrid of fascism and Third-Worldism. Non-Arab minorities in Baath-ruled countries, such as the Kurds, often faced discrimination or worse."

Juan pretty well covered his links content .. agree, a very excellent article ..